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Originally Posted by Katsunami
The same (sometimes) happens between "Dutch Dutch" and "Belgian Dutch", even though the biggest difference between the two languages is the usage and pronounciation of loan words.
The Dutch are not scared of loan words. Nowadays, we have so many (especially English ones), that people stare at you when you use the "proper" Dutch word. Over here, nobody says "verwerkingseenheid" if you mean a "processor". (The computer part, I mean.) When talking about violence during soccer games, nobody says "voetbalvandaal"; everybody just says "hooligan".
The Belgians have much more "proper Dutch" replacements for loan words, and if they don't, they often pronounce the word as it would have been pronounced if it had been a Dutch word.
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So belgian are to dutch what Canadians are to french.
They try to get french words, but most of time they sucks, and more importantly, they wait until the English words are in the common language to create the french words, so most people keeps on using the English words.